Plasmids 101: Using Transposons in the Lab
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...potential to overcome some of the limitations of viruses. TEs have a large payload, up to 100 kB with Sleeping...into new target sites. This is similar to how retroviruses, like HIV, replicate. Class I TEs do not encode...(non-LTR TEs). LTR retrotransposons are like retroviruses both in their structure and mechanism of replication... (~5 kB payload for AAV and ~8 kB payload for lentivirus). Large cargos, such as the ~11 kB cDNA for dystrophin...